[squeak-dev] Squeak Board minutes - 11/19/12

Chris Cunnington smalltalktelevision at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 13:12:24 UTC 2012


Members attending: Bert Freudenberg, Colin Putney, Chris Muller, Randal 
Schwartz, Chris Cunnington, Craig Latta

- Squeak4.4 is going to be released soon

- The election process is being reviewed to secure an election manager 
so Göran doesn't have to do it forever

- David T. Lewis set up automatic building of 64-bit images [1], and Ian 
Piumarta provides a Linux VM to run these images [2]. The Board explored 
what could be done with such an image. The main thing it allows is 
having larger object memories. One idea was a system that would log all 
message sends and state changes, so we could have an omniscient debugger 
(e.g., a person could play back everything that happened in the previous 
half hour). This relates to Gilad Bracha's blog post "Debug Mode Is The 
Only Mode" [3]. One thing necessary for a wider adoption of 64-bit 
images would be providing VMs for Windows and Mac, and making some 
remaining plugins work with 64-bits.

- Craig Latta is about to release the first modules for the Naiad module 
system for Spoon: Chronos and Quoth. Craig has a process of 
"spoonifying" an application written in regular code. Chronos is Alan 
Lovejoy's date/time library [4] and Quoth is Craig's own musical 
live-coding system [5].

- Tim Rowledge is waiting to receive in the mail a Raspberry Pi with 
which he aims to provide a current RiscOS platform for Squeak. Being the 
original ARM maintainer of the Squeak VM, he intends to adapt his 
existing RiscOS code for the Raspbery Pi.

- Colin Putney  is in the process of reviewing and releasing a new 
revision of Filesystem [6]

- Chris C. has developed a prototype of a new squeak.org homepage. It's 
latest version can be found at [7]. It is an Altitude website. There are 
questions about the site on two fronts: how it looks; and, how stable it 
is. There has been doubt about how the site should look. Opinions about 
its design, logo, layout, CSS, etc. are welcome. Herbert Konig is 
helping to harden it with the Selenium testing suite. [8] [9] The most 
recent image has been up for +200 hours without a problem. Colin has 
added changes to Altitude, which will be deployed soon.

[1] 
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-November/166422.html

[2] http://squeakvm.org/unix/

[3] http://gbracha.blogspot.ca/

[4] http://chronos-st.blogspot.com/

[5] http://netjam.org/quoth/

[6] http://wiresong.ca/filesystem/

[7] http://box3.squeak.org:8624

[8] http://seleniumhq.org/

[9] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/selenium-ide/


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